Lot Essay
Cf. B Rackham, Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924, vol.III, no.360 and the Ionides Collection, Sotheby's, 9 October 1967, lot 195.
CIRCA 1770
Details
A Birmingham or South Staffordshire tobacco-box
circa 1770
Oblong, printed and painted on the cover with figures in a Dutch inn in the manner of Teniers, the waisted white ground sides and base with scattered flowers, with engraved gilt-metal mounts
4¾in. (12cm.) side
circa 1770
Oblong, printed and painted on the cover with figures in a Dutch inn in the manner of Teniers, the waisted white ground sides and base with scattered flowers, with engraved gilt-metal mounts
4¾in. (12cm.) side
Provenance
The Mullens Collection, Christie's, 18 March 1987, lot 487